With access to the Internet readily available on a myriad of everyday devices, it’s easy to get a good dose of information overload when researching your next group cruise. And many are finding out that their time is not worth all the trouble.

The cruise lines have kids cruise free programs for one reason only: their supply of available staterooms exceeds the demand. And whenever they announce a kids cruise free offer, they generate a lot of interest. It’s good business for the cruise line [...]

Many people begin looking for cruise news when they get ready to plan a cruise vacation; avid cruisers like to continually stay in touch with industry developments. Until now there hasn’t been a convenient way to get that information. Cruise NewsWatch is a new web site that provides you [...]

You’ll probably admit that your first reaction to this “cruise free” headline was one of skepticism. But sooner or later you’ll get your post card with a cruise ship offering a free cruise. When you get an offer like this for a free cruise there’s usually a “hook” associated with it like seeing a timeshare [...]

Recently I had the occasion to visit The American Spirit–a small cruise ship prior to embarking from Baltimore on an 8-night Chesapeake Bay sailing. By small ship I mean less than 100 passengers. The ship’s tonnage, a measure of the volume of the ship’s enclosed passenger space, was 1,600; the Norwegian Epic is [...]